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Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects
by Tom Igoe
from Make Books

Features:

• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• MAKING THINGS TALK
  I take my hat off to Tom for his contribution the rest of the amatures like me. I wish you well

• Arduino ? Say What ?
  I understand an author can't be expected to cover every microcontroller in every language but, Arduino ?? What the BLEEP !! Who uses Arduino...never heard of it ? I bought Igoe's Physical Computing and found it of some value on account that he was using Pic Basic Pro to program Microchip Pics when everyone else uses Assembler or C. He did however, in that book, include some other micros such as a Basic Stamp 2 and I could at least slightly empathize with his efforts to keep as many people happy as possible.... more info

• I loved it
  I thoroughly enjoyed this book and have read it cover-2-cover.
  Granted - some of the projects are a little hokey. Perhaps that is why I kept finding alternate uses for the circuitry.
  Negative? The author covered a lot of ground and was forced to limit his depth. That makes it an excellent "Intro" book - but makes me wish for more.
  

• Great book of projects involving communications and networking
  When I first heard about this book, I assumed it was about projects for speech synthesis. When I read the details on the publisher's site I was somewhat disappointed - talking meant communications in this case. However, I ordered it anyway and was quite delighted by the results. The book is well illustrated, well written, and contains 26 very interesting projects. If you are teaching networking to high schoolers or even to college students, these projects might make interesting case studies to drive home... more info

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